“Heads Up” - October 2014
The monthly round-up of news from Yorkshire &
the Humber Leadership Academy
Welcome
September has seen a great deal of activity for the team as our weekly updates testify. Our 2013 GMTS intake started
and were welcomed into the NHS at the National Welcome Event. We are now gearing up for our the Regional Event
24th October. Nominations for the Regional Leadership Awards came pouring in at the last minute with over 150
nominations! This is up on last year and the quality is very high, we’re looking forward to the Awards Ceremony 3rd
December.
Inclusive and Diverse Leadership continues to be a high priority for us. We were delighted by the turnout at the
Inclusion Event for Chief Executives and Directors. The event provided a safe space for discussion and action planning
to create more diverse senior leadership across Yorkshire and the Humber. We also received plenty of bids against the
Innov8 Fund and are very proud to be able to support individuals and organisations as they work to develop diverse
talent.
Lisa Chan is a welcome addition to our team; she joins John Hunter as our key link supporting the delivery of the
National Leadership Programmes and Awards.
Looking ahead to the coming months our activity is increasingly aimed at improving engagement with our stakeholders
across the Yorkshire and Humber region to ensure that our leadership and organisation development offer remains
relevant and responsive to your needs. Support to ‘System Leadership’ interventions and specific OD consultancy
requests seem to be on the increase which is exciting since we are in the process of re-launching the Strategic OD
network. Working with OD practitioners across the patch we are designing interventions to increase capacity and
capability in this area. If you would like more information please get in touch.
Kathryn Winterburn
Head of Leadership & Organisation Development
Yorkshire and the Humber Leadership Academy
Regional News
Developing Diverse Talent event round up
5th September we hosted an event with the NHS Leadership Academy to meet with the most senior
leaders of healthcare in our region, to provide a safe space for NHS Chief Executives and senior
leaders to reflect, discuss and take action to increase diversity of race and ethnicity in the leadership
and governance of the NHS. Over 22 Senior Leaders attended the session, delivered by Carol
Campayne and Roger Kline. The workshop was balanced to ensure a link between personal,
collective and wider responsibility with round table discussions and presentations from Roger around
his findings across the region.
A number of resources were circulated on the day, which you can view here. For further information,
contact Lynsey Nicholson.
Regional News
Invitation to Senior Leaders to join Accelerate
discussion
Cross – sector mentoring system
We held a design day 2nd October to introduce
the cross sector mentoring system to
stakeholders from the region, including staff from
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Leeds Community
Healthcare, York Teaching Hospitals, Bradford
District Care Trust and Health & Social Care
Information Centre.
The Accelerate programme progresses the
leadership journey and careers of junior to midlevel leaders, with a focus on inclusive
leadership skills and values to benefit
participants, their colleagues and patients and
service users. To celebrate the completion of the
latest cohort, we are hosting an event 22nd
October at the Novotel in Leeds; we invite
senior leaders to join us for a round table
discussion prior to the networking lunch. Please
contact Lynsey Nicholson for further details.
Stakeholders worked with the provider to help
focus the system to offer a simple and intuitive
means by which users can find help to close
important knowing and doing gaps. Our next
step is to gather names of organisations who
wish to access the system; we have lists of NHS
organisations in the region but if there are nonNHS organisations you partner with that should
be included, email Amanda Allen to let us know.
Regional News
Innov8 Associates
Innov8 Fund
The Innov8 Associates had their first meeting
this week with the Innov8 team to discuss their
individual ideas around diversity and inclusion in
their own organisations.
The Innov8 Fund closed to application on 25th
September. We received 11 applications from
our stakeholders asking for financial investment
into an area of work intending to support diverse
leadership, improve the health of an organisation
or providing more inclusive services. The panel
are due to make their decisions in October,
following this we will be able to confirm the
successful applications.
If you have any queries about Innov8, contact
Lynsey Nicholson.
The Associates have been sponsored to cover
their time and a range of resources to drive their
ideas forward around issues of gender parity,
healthy organisations and inclusive and
representative leadership. The meeting was
thought provoking and a real insight into the
work being driven by passionate individuals in
the region, with a key motivation for making
change happen at a local level for the people
they work with and the communities they serve.
We will continue to update you about the work of
our Associates via the website, where you can
also find the details of their proposals.
Regional News
The Strategic Areas of Improvement in
Healthcare as defined by Jönköping County
Council
Oshry Workshop 10th November
One of the elements of our Improvement
Fellows Development Programme is the
opportunity for to take part in a workshop hosted
by John Watters in Sheffield, it is open to any
staff interested in managing the system and
getting people on board.
Other parts of the Programme include funding to
attend the Jönköping Microsystems Festival
in 2015, and establishing a Community of
Practice, supported by George Pór, from global
consultancy Future Considersations. George will
undertake an Appreciative Inquiry in the first half
of October with Improvement Fellows, and we
are looking for volunteers for him to speak to.
Please register your interest ASAP with Amanda
Allen.
Regional & National News
NHS Leadership Academy Survey request
Staff Networks request
The
NHS
Leadership
Academy
have
commissioned a piece of research, in
partnership with the Foundation Trust Network,
into researching ethnicity, disability and NHS
recruitment and leadership.
As part of our ongoing work we are seeking to
promote our programmes of inclusive leadership
and recognise emerging talent across our
workforce in the region. We would like to come
and visit your staff networks or staff development
events to tell you more about what we are doing.
Please help by completing this confidential
questionnaire, which is deliberately brief, by
14 November 2014. The findings, which will be
anonymised, will help to begin to better
understand the issues for the recruitment and
retention of BME staff and the formulation of
appropriate talent management strategies.
If you have any questions about how the
information will be used please email the project
manager Brendan Martin or call 020 3092 4789
If you are interested in knowing more about our
offers, please provide Lynsey Nicholson with
details for any networks meeting within your
organisation.
National Programmes
Over 400 nurses and midwives from
Yorkshire and the Humber take part in
Frontline
The NHS Leadership Academy development
programme, Frontline, has had over 400 nurses
and midwives from our region take part. The first
25 cohorts nationally completed at the end of
September, with a further 65 either underway or
due to open in the coming months.
400 is a fantastic result for Yorkshire and the
Humber – to put in to context, the national target
for Frontline is 5,000 over one year. Thank you
to our stakeholders for passing on the
opportunity, and supporting staff through the
programme. Feedback received formally and
anecdotally from participants and the workshop
facilitators Hay Group has been overwhelmingly
positive.
We want to make sure your nurses and
midwives take up this offer while still available as
a funded programme. Please let us know of any
opportunities we can take to come to your
organisation to talk to staff and give out
information. Contact John Hunter or Lisa Chan
to arrange.
“I did have the opinion I am a band 5 I cannot
change anything. That opinion has now well and
truly disappeared this is not the case no matter
who you are within the workplace I can make a
difference no matter how small and if everyone
makes one small change the impact will be and
can be huge.”
National Programmes
Regional Leadership Awards – thank you
National Development Programmes update
Nominations closed 1st September and thanks to
your efforts we received 155 nominations
across 44 organisations in Yorkshire and the
Humber, a 55% increase on last year’s count
and fourth out of the 10 NHS Leadership
Academy Local Delivery Partners nationally in
terms of numbers.
Participants for the new intakes of the Mary
Seacole, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Nye
Bevan Programmes have now been contacted
and will start their study over the next eight
weeks (programme dependant).
Thanks also to our judging panel who have
returned scores this week, you can view the list
of finalists here.
The Regional Recognition Awards ceremony will
take place the daytime of 3rd December at the
Marriott Hotel, Leeds. Please contact John
Hunter or Lisa Chan with any queries.
We will have an update for all Leadership Leads
to follow shortly, detailing their participants for
each programme.
The September 2013 intake for the Mary
Seacole Programme are due to finish shortly,
and we are in the planning stages for a
graduation event in the region in early 2015.
Please contact John Hunter or Lisa Chan with
any queries.
Dates For Your Diary
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October: Improvement Fellows
Development Programme begins
October: Talent 2020 Inquiry
October: Innov8 Associates begin
October: Recruitment for Change
Leaders Network
October: Innov8 Masterclass
series begins
16th Oct: CCGs Talent
Management session
20th / 28th Oct: Jonkoping
Community of Practice
Workshops
21st Oct: Women in Medicine
event
22nd Oct: Accelerate Celebration
Event
22nd Oct: Leeds Cohort for
Frontline closes
24th Oct: GMTS Regional
Welcome event
Next
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November: Inspiring Leaders
Forum launches
10th Nov: York Cohort for
Frontline closes
10th Nov: Oshry Workshop with
John Watters (Improvement
Fellows Programme)
26th Nov: 360 Facilitator Training
27th-28th Nov: “Manager as
Coach” training
2nd Dec: Talent 2020 Workshop
3rd Dec: NHS Regional
Recognition Awards
Mid-December: Mary Seacole
Programme (Intake 1) final marks
sent out
Later
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January: Diversity Management
MSc at Bradford University
intake
January: Mary Seacole
Programme (Intake 1)
Graduation Event
21st-22nd Jan: “Manager as
Coach” training
February: i-Lead Programme
begins
2nd Feb: Health Coaching
Conference
25th-27th Feb: Jonkoping
Microsystems Festival
March 2015: Frontline
Programme closes
Spring: Innov8 Alliance Day
Contact Us
General Enquiries: 0113 394 2963 /// Follow us @YHLeadershipOD
Andrea Overton and Lynsey
Nicholson
Inclusive Talent Development,
Graduate Management Trainee
Scheme
Anthony Owens, Jane Pightling and Capacity and Capability Building
Amanda Allen
including OD Programmes and
Coaching
John Hunter and Lisa Chan
National Professional Development
Programmes, Regional Leadership
Awards
Lucy Scarisbrick
Communications and Engagement
Kathryn Winterburn and Jo Seddon
Strategy and Planning, Regional
Leadership Council, Partnership
Working and Systems Leadership